News tagged with cell counts
Rothman at Jefferson research suggests abandon convention in diagnosing periprosthetic joint infection
In their search for new, better ways to diagnose periprosthetic joint infection, Rothman Institute at Jefferson researchers have discovered that measurement of C-reactive protein in the synovial fluid is extremely accurate, ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Handheld device for doing blood tests moves closer to medical use
Scientists are reporting a key advance in efforts to develop a handheld device that could revolutionize the complete blood cell count (CBC), one of the most frequently performed blood tests used to diagnose ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Ultrasound male contraceptive, overlooked for decades, confirmed to work
Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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New study adds further guidance on when to start antiretroviral therapy for HIV
One of the key decisions faced by people living with HIV, and by their health-care providers, is when to start treatment.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Early antiretroviral therapy for HIV shown cost-effective
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and GHESKIO (Groupe Haitien d'Etude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes) have shown that early treatment of HIV not only saves lives but is also cost-effective. ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Blood loss from lab testing associated with hospital-acquired anemia for patients with heart attacks
In patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), blood loss from greater use of phlebotomy (blood drawn for diagnostic testing) appears to be independently associated with the development of hospital-acquired ...
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Massive genome studies identify genetics behind white blood cell counts
A trio of large-scale genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, have identified more than 15 gene variants responsible for the diversity of white blood cell counts among whites, African-Americans, and Japanese. Supported ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Antibody-guided drug works against acute lymphoblastic leukemia
An antibody packaged with a potent chemotherapy drug to selectively destroy acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells eradicated or greatly reduced the disease for 61 percent of 46 patients in a phase II study. It will be ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Researchers discover that lymphocyte count indicates prognosis of patients with renal cell carcinoma
Each year, kidney cancer is diagnosed in nearly 60,000 people in the U.S. Many of these patients undergo surgery to remove the affected kidney, but this procedure can be risky for the elderly and those who have other health ...
May 18, 2011 |
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New HIV treatment guidelines indicate importance of early, individualized antiretroviral treatment
Advances in antiretroviral treatment (ART) have shown that the progressive immune system destruction caused by HIV infection, including AIDS, can be prevented, indicating the importance of beginning ART early, when a person ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 18, 2010 |
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New models predict short-term survival of HIV patients starting antiretroviral therapy in sub-saharan Africa
The survival of HIV patients in sub-Saharan Africa in the first year of antiretroviral therapy (ART) can now be predicted using either of two new risk models, developed by Matthias Egger from the University of Bern in Switzerland ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Treating HIV earlier to decrease the risk of death
Begin treatment as early as possible: this general common sense rule seems to apply to most diseases except HIV-AIDS, which is only treated once a certain number of immune cells called "CD4+" cells have disappeared. The results ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 14, 2009 |
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IL-2 immunotherapy fails to benefit HIV-infected individuals already taking antiretrovirals
Providing a synthetic form of the immune system protein interleukin-2 (IL-2) to HIV-infected individuals already taking combination antiretroviral therapy boosts their numbers of CD4+ T cells, the key white blood cells destroyed ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Most babies with uncomplicated febrile seizures can avoid spinal tap
When babies develop a fever high enough or abrupt enough to cause a seizure, frightened parents often rush them to the emergency room, where their workup frequently includes a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to rule out bacterial ...
Jan 06, 2009 |
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